Comment by CRConrad

> Your choice of word (spread/ingrain itself) seems to imply there is malicious intent. Software do not sneak itself into distribution by themselves.

No, you're right: It's people that do that. And those definitely can have intent (often benevolent, sometimes malicious, other times just so misguided as to be in-effect-malicious).

So let's go with "the main issue is how some people managed to spread and ingrain it into distributions making them dependent on it."

Does that make it much better?